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Television, cinema, and online streaming services in Asia are set to have a lot more LGBT content, Taiwan-based media entrepreneur Jay Lin 5&3@t(DRGCzbQ_(My(=a+sWxw&23)smwZ-gg+Q_QNyU$xTQ+@btold those gathered at the Content Asia Summit in Singapore last week.

Recent and future productions across Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Japan show LGBT content is ever-mb@pdbCxXf1h!xfK_TP86nPY8+=J7$8Q_CnQ9uS^CucE*p60)bNore popular with the region’s viewers.

"LGBT content has already gone from what was once nDQ1RdF9G5#t$uir*oRNVTq45UN7)DQQ2d5XRb-l3g(AdfOSaGBiche to now a part of the mainstream” Lin said.

He noted, for example, more than half of the nominations CUsIqTp_+6i*yfLh$Pw+2iq8^4UaE26rEtYQak67yE_+pDJdGkfor Best Picture at this years Academy Awards featured an LGBT component.

"This is aspirational for Asia, but there are certain territories where the media content landscape has hL1BK(5NhJi6knoB9S=*vD(t9BbLMNFkF(p!U(UJ0lc+WKhkkSmade significant progress in the past several years.”

“Boy Love” or mOreC6r3BW5!lLO^=3uT$Y9Fcw_sYAlO5cHm-pSMN+z$HwOCXsKale same-sex romances in Japan and Thailand are booming, Lin noted. The trailer for Thai movie Theory of Love got 1.5 million views in one week.

LGBT content is increasing7V%f9XJKbkD8C9YRmdMj9r*QybwI-#R&+b%YYvEJrKCPk%c%n^ly appearing in television series in India and movies in Taiwan, Lin also explained.

Taiwan in May this year became the first country in Asia to legalize samAGs=&N#BVeB_@cy@OToK(O*kiEBJA8ViIkCW%nTI2=@ZE(m6n@e-sex marriage. India, meanwhile, decriminalized gay sex.

Both Thailand and Japan, me59Z!6@vcFt70zGafB#UBje67JEgRidQ0R=8K&R)oWkLwLQNuiLanwhile, have also seen significant steps towards equal marriage and other LGBT rights.

Lin also %UHIbysK$UzX3FiR)1AlUC4Gzwc2KAKiuDVw1fnoNIFc42emV8introduced GagaOOLala, Asia’s first LGBT online streaming service now making productions available to one third of the world’s population.

He also introdu85^%O6pYH*F8nH3e&fbNhMHP)!Aaie72!UJFSDx0AAIAn6kCXLced production house GOL Studios, which has projects on the go across the world from South Korea to the US, Myanmar to Germany.

Content Asia Summit 2019 bought together the region’s movers p+(BXKO9Q^HS*VC8J#+i^xc12llWNqZqx5&#pAzK56K%chdvGDand shakers in media production and broadcasting industries.

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